Brian Eno Quotes
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
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In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect.
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I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
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The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
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I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it.
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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.